How to be Friendly
Almost everyone agrees that friendliness is a great asset in life. Although there are rare, highly-focused exceptions, the vast majority of...
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A Good Name
Successful, enduring companies understand the value of a good name. They guard their name with patent and copyright protections, and they...
Read more Dressing for Respect
In his bestseller 1975 book, Dress for Success, John T. Malloy popularized the concept of “power dressing,” the idea that how we...
Read more Heroes of Faith
Who is your hero? It may be a parent, a grandparent, a schoolteacher or early influence in your life, maybe a gospel preacher or some public...
Read more The “Flaw of the Excluded Middle”
In a play on words referring to a principle in logic dating from the work of Aristotle, anthropologist Paul G. Heibert in January, 1982 coined the...
Read more “Let My Conscience Rule”
How many times have you heard the expression, “Let your conscience be your guide” or something similar? Have you ever stopped to think about what...
Read more Growing Old Together
The gospel writer, Mark, tells of an incident in the life of Jesus where he fielded an interesting question about fasting: “Why don’t your...
Read more God, Give Us Christian Homes
In 1949 Baylus Benjamin McKinney (1886-1952) published the song, God Give Us Christian Homes. The first stanza reads as follows: “God...
Read more Why Did You Doubt?
And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” (Mt...
Read more The Gospel Can Reach Across Cultures
All people of the world need the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. And the gospel of Jesus Christ is up to the task. When we consider the many and...
Read more How to Love an “Unloveable” Wife
I’ve heard it any number of times, but still I never cease to be amazed when a spouse starts talking about leaving their mate because “they...
Read more Except the Lord Build the House
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain, (Ps...
Read more The Psalms of Ascent
Psalms 120-134 were sung as pilgrims made their way up the Judean hills to Jerusalem to celebrate the three annual feasts of Israel. A sort of...
Read more Some Biblical Insights on Racism
“Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath...
Read more Crucified With Christ
There are several passages which speak of “dying” with Christ. Obviously, these are not teaching that we literally and physically died...
Read more Step Up to the Plate
Some years ago I helped coach the Little League baseball team on which our son, Robbie, was playing. As an assistant, my place was in the dugout...
Read more Crossing Jordan
Last Sunday I did something I very rarely do. I preached another preacher’s sermon. The sermon, “the Jordan River” was adapted from a...
Read more Remember the Main Thing
As I write these lines, it is Inauguration Day in America – a very important thing. It is important on many levels, including the fact that it...
Read more They Don’t Want to Hear It
When people no longer want to hear the truth, there is hopelessness. This is true because only the truth can “set us free” (Jn. 8:32)...
Read more The Grace of God
Everything we have we owe to the grace of God. Our physical lives, our material possessions, our spiritual lives, and our salvation from sin are...
Read more The Fruit of the Spirit
We note in Gal. 5:22 the absence of an “s” after “fruit.” Paul did not say, “the fruits of the Spirit are…” but...
Read more A Straight Course to Samothrace
There is an interesting detail included by the inspired historian, while describing a part of Paul’s Second Missionary Journey in Acts 16:11. Luke...
Read more Tips for Making the Most of Your Holidays
I think probably Christmas and New Year’s are the most anticipated of all the holidays. Not that the others are unimportant, but these...
Read more Preaching a Funeral
Generally speaking, there are two broad types of funerals which I preach: those where I am confident the person was saved, and those where I am...
Read more Pray Without Ceasing
As we travel through this life, we have so many blessings bestowed upon us yet how often do we stop to give thanks to the God of Heaven for them?...
Read more Fellowship
The Bible doctrine of fellowship is a fascinating study. Starting with a definition of the word itself, we can understand it by seeing how it is...
Read more A Year To Be Thankful For
It really hit home when I was recently reading an article by David R. Shannon, President of Freed-Hardeman University, entitled, “It Was the...
Read more An Inspired Witness List
In criminal cases, government attorneys are often required to provide to the opposing side a list of witnesses whom they intend to call to testify...
Read more Order Out of Confusion
Christians are people of decency, people of order. We do not enjoy turmoil, or when the lives of people around us are filled with strife and...
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